On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: In mid-May, I got the opportunity to attend the Australia women's national basketball team training camp, where myself and two Commons photographers got to take pictures. We published two Wikinews stories about this: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Raw_Opals_spend_week_preparing_for_London_Games… http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Australian_media_focuses_on_Olympic_prospects_a…. In preparation for this, before, during and after, we improved articles related to the players. Thus far the following have appeared as DYKs: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Jackson * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Poto * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Hurst * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elyse_Penaluna I've nominated three articles about these women for DYK in the past 24 hours. Beyond basketball, I rescued http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_kickboxing_in_Australia from deletion. The article talks about illegality of women's participation in a sport and the involvement of a minority group in Australia in the sport. I've slowly been working on creating wanted articles about women's national football teams. In the past two months, I have taken four of the articles about women's football teams in Africa to GA. There are now more GAs about women's teams than men's teams in Africa. Several of these articles have appeared at DYK recently including http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles_women%27s_national_footba…, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anguilla_women%27s_national_football_team and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambia_women%27s_national_football_team . Today, I also wrote http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Australia_women's_water_polo_team_into_FINA… Wikinews, which I have submitted for publication. Should be having a meeting next week to discuss with some one in the Australian government about women's sport and Wikipedia. -- twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com

Hi Sarah, hi @all, thank you, Sarah, for this new thread and thank you for sharing your activitities with us, I particularly like the teahouse :-) at the annual meeting that picks up a 1920s Berlin tradition of lesbians who meet over the extended weekend of Whitsuntide, we met in Nuremberg (city of human rights) this year for another fabulous self- organized non-commercial bunch of worshops, plenary sessions, cultural programme and a manifestation in downtown Nuremberg - and all of this in 90% barrier-free arrangements, one of the acknowledged hallmarks of this meeting, called "LFT" (Lesben-Fruehlings-Treffen, lesbian spring meetings) for the first time, a Wikipedia workshop was held (initiated by me and spontaneously co-moderated by a visually-impaired translesbian colleague), with 8 participants after a highly relevant introduction to Wikipedia from the point of view of a visually-impaired person and web expert, we did an edit-a-thon on the article about the meeting :-) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesben-Frühlings-Treffen and I guess everyone is joining in again at next year's meeting in Munich where we will also deal with unconditional openness vs. realism (e.g. encrypting your emails) in the face of rising fascist activities in many computer science departments and more generally in neighbouring countries like Hungary and Russia where state-driven homo- and transphobia is rising dramatically and Roma people face no less than a genocide (in Hungary that is currently under a government that I call fascist, I visited Budapest again and met activist friends there just 10 days ago). for a short round-up of what "Lesbenfruehling" meetings are doing to promote transparency and openness also in other respects: the meeting also included a panel discussion on the current situation for lesbians in neighbouring countries like Croatia (to be joining the EU in July 2013), Poland (EU member since 2004), Hungary (EU member since 2007) and Russia (member country of the Council of Europe http://www.coe.int/ that is human rights- related), with Poland clearly on the upside, Croatia almost, and Russia and Hungary on servere downsides, with Russian regional parliaments having introduced explicitly homo- and transphobic bills that we are fighting against in international solidarity. By way of an example, our panel speakers from Croatia belong to the team who form the lesbian feminist mixed choir "Le Zbor" (www.lezbor.com) and the last song of their evening programme was from Russia and sung in Russian. We also had workshops dedicated more specifically to the situation in Russia and Hungary and in Germany, e.g. on an initiative to finally put up a specifically lesbian memorial stone on the site of the former concentration camp Ravensbrueck that was women only. At the downtown rally we read out the names of known lesbian individuals that died because of persecution during the Nazi regime (i.e. those who could not or did not want to leave the country early enough in those years). this is just to give you an example of how LFT meetings work on a culture of openness that I think is close to what Wikipedia is aiming at, too, thank you for reading this & cheers from contemporary Germany, Claudia koltzenburg(a)w4w.net